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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written  (Proportion Quotes) Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation  (Proportion Quotes) Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment  (Proportion Quotes) The uttered part of a man’s life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others  (Proportion Quotes) Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size  (Proportion Quotes) Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance  (Proportion Quotes) I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them  (Proportion Quotes) While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior  (Proportion Quotes) The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains  (Proportion Quotes) Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others  (Proportion Quotes) Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers  (Proportion Quotes) Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary  (Proportion Quotes) Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites  (Proportion Quotes) Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage  (Proportion Quotes) Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice  (Proportion Quotes) Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure  (Proportion Quotes) If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion  (Proportion Quotes) It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion  (Proportion Quotes) Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul  (Proportion Quotes) One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?  (Proportion Quotes) The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head  (Proportion Quotes) I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain  (Proportion Quotes) Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you’re younger but now I just think ‘well everybody’s absolutely mad and I’m doing quite well’  (Proportion Quotes) I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it  (Proportion Quotes) Your problems are out there. But they’re small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head  (Proportion Quotes) ... a writer’s works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul  (Proportion Quotes) Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required  (Proportion Quotes) The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people  (Proportion Quotes) The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object  (Proportion Quotes) Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them  (Proportion Quotes)
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